PP Chaudhry.Image source: Facebook
BJP MP PP Chaudhary has been appointed as the chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) established under the One Nation One Election Act. The JPC, which is reviewing the “One Nation, One Choice” bill, has 27 members from the Lok Sabha and 12 members from the Federal House of Representatives. The “One Country, One Election Bill” was proposed in the People’s House, but was opposed by the opposition parties and decided to send it to the Minority Council for discussion.
The Lok Sabha secretariat on Friday issued a notification for the formation of the JPC and appointed BJP MP PP Chaudhary as its chairman. Let us know who is PP Chaudhary and who has been given this responsibility.
Know who is PP Chowdhury
PP Chaudhary is a veteran advocate and politician. He currently represents the Pali constituency in Rajasthan as a BJP MP. Previously, he served as Minister of State for Corporate Affairs, Law and Justice, and Electronics and Information Technology.
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He has served as Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Chairman of the Joint Committee on the Public Trust (Amendment) Bill 2022, Chairman of the Joint Committee on the Personal Data Protection Bill 2019 and Chairman of the Joint Committee on the Public Trust (Amendment) Bill 2022. Profit Office. He is also a member of the Budget Committee, Commerce Advisory Committee, General Purpose Committee of the Lok Sabha and the Advisory Committee of Home Ministry, Government of India.
Won Pali Lok Sabha for third time
PP Choudhary won the first Lok Sabha election from Pali Lok Sabha constituency in 2014 by a margin of over 4 lakh votes. He won by 500,000 votes in 2019 and was re-elected to Parliament for a third time in 2024 by 250,000 votes. For his outstanding performance in the Lok Sabha, he was awarded the “Sansad Ratna Award” for two consecutive years in 2015 and 2016.
BJP MP who served as minister
PP Chaudhary was sworn in as Minister of State at the Union Council of Ministers on July 5, 2016 and was in charge of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. During his tenure as minister, he worked towards bridging the digital divide between urban and rural areas, promoting connectivity in 100,000 gram villages through optical fiber network and providing Wi-Fi hotspots in all villages.
Apart from this, PP Chaudhary was also the Minister of State for Law and Justice, working with Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad from July 5, 2016 to May 30, 2019 . As Minister of State, Chaudhry represented the Government of India at the International Legal Ministers’ Conference on Judicial Independence held in Marrakesh, Morocco from April 1 to 5, 2018.
In October 2017, he also led a delegation to attend the SCO Justice Ministers’ Meeting in Tashkent. PP Choudhary was appointed as the Minister of State for Corporate Affairs on September 3, 2017. As Minister of State, he led a massive campaign to remove the names of 250,000 non-compliant shell companies.
Born in Jodhpur, practiced in the High Court
PP Choudhary was born on July 12, 1953 in a peasant family in Bhavi village of Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. He was the son of Prabhu Ram Choudhary and Dhakku Devi. He joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in his childhood and his early education was in the life of RSS pracharaks.
He obtained two postgraduate degrees: Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Laws from Jai Narayan Vyas University, Jodhpur. In 1978, he started practicing before the Jodhpur High Court. He is married to Veena Pani Chaudhary and has two children.
